10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About Women's Wrestling

Harvey Wippleman was not Women's Champion. Harvey Wippleman was not Women's Champion.

The Kat Terri Runnels SummerSlam 2000
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Whether the 'revolution' has been bunged or not is up for debate, but it is impossible to deny that these are incredible times for women's wrestling in WWE. Charlotte Flair and Sasha Banks recently headlined the Hell in a Cell PPV, the first time women had performed in the main event of a WWE special event, and they did so inside the Cell itself. It was a night of firsts.

The Women's Championship (well, the two Women's Championships) are now truly vital and credible belts in the company, with Charlotte and Sasha providing big match moments on Raw whilst the SmackDown Live division shows that it is possible to have more than one women's story running at once. The times are good, and whilst they aren't perfect we need to be aware of the positives.

Because the truth is women's wrestling has more often than not been treated like absolute dirt by WWE. The company has a quite truly horrific history of treating women as things to be looked at and objectified, as nothing more than glorified strippers living in a man's world. History hasn't been kind to females in WWE.

WWE isn't exactly attempting to take an axe to history, but there are a number of moments from the past that Stephanie McMahon & Co would be happy for you to forget. Here are 10 of them.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.